Superstudio ... noun
1 Super something superior in grade or quality or larger in size
2 Studio a place where an artist, designer, or musician works
Brisbane Development Association's Super Studio
The Brisbane Development Association (BDA) hosted a Super Studio on 23 November, 2007 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event was sponsored by the South Bank Corporation and Urbis, supported by the Centre for Subtropical Design and the Urban Design Alliance (Queensland) and included participants from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University.
Following the success of the BDA's Tabula Rasa design charette in 2005 and as part of the BDA's 50th anniversary, we initiated this studio on the next 50 years in Brisbane - What will it look like, how will it function and perform?
The Super Studio was an exciting, challenging, visionary event, incorporating key advisory and educational institutions that provided innovation, rigor and passion to deliver a vision for Brisbane in 2057. The creative inspiration that occurred with such powerful collaboration of like minded professionals, government and industry representatives, students and key stakeholders is exciting and timely, as Brisbane faces rapid growth, demographic change, economic challenges and climate change.
Brisbane will be a vastly different place with its rapid growth in population and diverse social and cultural mix. As the fastest growing city in the Southern Hemisphere in a subtropical climate on the driest continent on the planet we needed to imagine how Brisbane will look and retain the image as one of the most liveable cities in the world!
As there has been extensive work undertaken on the inner city, and a number of key urban redevelopment and growth initiatives being investigated and delivered based within the inner city over a 20 year timeframe, the studio focused on the same area with a view to imagine what 30 years beyond 2026 will become.
Click HERE to view the Superstudio presentation.